Small town life and observations in the mid-west.
16 Aug 2020 1 minute read 2 comments uthus2000
Three weeks ago, Grammy and I decided to take a day trip. After looking into the several state parks in the area, we thought that Johnson Shut-Ins might be the ticket. It's located about 2 hours south of St Louis near Thom Saul Mountain in the Ozar...
15 Aug 2020 1 minute read 0 comments uthus2000
I know this should have been submitted yesterday, but I got into a video that I'm pretty sure will be removed from YouTube before long... My girls are twenty something and thirty something. Any time that I have tried to tell them about the hards...
14 Aug 2020 1 minute read 0 comments uthus2000
Gammy sent me this pic today while I was at work. Apparently it was raining. I had no idea. It was overcast in St Louis but we only got a sprinkle about 2:30 or so. This lake, viewed from our side window, is 2-1/2 or 3 feet deep at the end of th...
11 Aug 2020 1 minute read 0 comments uthus2000
"So there I was all close to the window with my nose pressed on the glass. I could see them all wigglin' and squirmin'. I knew I shouldn't have been there but I couldn't help myself." "Mm-hmm. Then what happened?" "Well I could tell they was getting...
9 Aug 2020 1 minute read 2 comments uthus2000
I haven't been there in some time, but in Tifton, Georgia there is a little shop on the corner: The Medicine Man. The guy that owns it is named Mark and used to be a pharmaceutical rep. One day he decided that they were full of lies and he quit to st...
8 Aug 2020 1 minute read 0 comments uthus2000
Earlier this week I had to do a service and panel change on what I thought to be a quiet street in St Louis. The first day went off without a hitch but when I got there the next morning I noticed this white car as I was turning around to grab a parki...
6 Aug 2020 1 minute read 4 comments uthus2000
In Hawaii, there are palm trees all over the place. Well not really. They must like living close to the ocean. Everywhere else there is mesquite or iron wood or kuu or plumería or any of several species. I've even seen coffee trees on Oahu. They do,...
2 Aug 2020 1 minute read 1 comment uthus2000
There is a place I sometimes go in my dreams. It's an island or a peninsula with a high mountain range running the length of it. It has kind of a Lovecraftian feel to it. In the middle of the range there is a stone fortress built on the cliff's edge...
1 Aug 2020 1 minute read 0 comments uthus2000
The grizzled old sergeant rode off in the sunset. His snot-nosed lieutenant had accused him of atrocities in the field. But everyone else knew better. The lieutenant was trying to make a name for himself with the brass. He had just picked the wrong N...
31 Jul 2020 1 minute read 2 comments uthus2000
My mother used to live around Knoxville. She told me of an annual event which I have never seen. Synchronous fireflies. Apparently at a particular altitude in the Great Smokey Mountains between the end of May and first of June fireflies synchronize t...
